United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of Social Security Disability benefits was improper where the administrative law judge did not consider a Department of Veteran's Affairs finding that the applicant was unable to work due to a disability.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/10/2002
• Decided 08/06/2002
• Published 08/06/2002

Judges

• Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, D.W. NELSON and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Eugenie Denise Mitchell (argued), Bess M. Brewer, Brewer & Mitchell, LLP, Sacramento, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jacqueline A. Forslund, Assistant Regional Counsel, United States Social Security Administration, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellee.